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Evening News for Thursday, October 26, 2017

tonight's headlines:

  • Unemployment fell in the Quad Cities last month to  4.3% from 5.5% a year ago,
  • Happy Joe's is working with a national franchising company to open new restaurants,
  • and the US Bureau of Prisons held a workshop today in Rock Island for people interested in becoming guards at the Thomson prison.

the forecast: cloudy and windy tonight with a low near 37. Cloudy and windy Friday, high 43. 

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.